Dash Widget Manager

Description

This plugin allows you to do the following:
1. Hide dashboard widgets from non admin users.
2. Hide core and plugin update messages.

Screenshots

Dashboard widget example.

Installation

Extract the downloaded Zip file.

Upload the ‘dash-widget-manager’ directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory

Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Go to the admin dashboard and use the new widget to manage your dashboard widgets.

FAQ

Installation Instructions

Extract the downloaded Zip file.

Upload the ‘dash-widget-manager’ directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory

Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Go to the admin dashboard and use the new widget to manage your dashboard widgets.

Does this plugin interrupt the wordpress update checks?

No. It only hides the messages that appear letting you know an update is available. For the core message the alert function is overridden and it is never printed to the page. For the plugin updates CSS is used to merely hide them.

Contributors & Developers

“Dash Widget Manager” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

1.1

Removing a javascript alert that wasn’t removed after testing.
Adding a gif to indicate that the dashboard widget is saving.

1.0

Complete rework of the plugin. Widgets are now disabled rather than enabled. All options are now managed through a dashboard widget.
Fixed several errors that have popped up since it was abandoned 4 years ago.

0.3

Fixed cant send header error on dashboard
Moved some global path variables into the DashWidgetManager class.

0.2

removed white space after plugin header and conditional that may cause activaion issues.